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DON QUIXOTE LA MANCHA
By De Cervantes
VOCUBULARY WORDS
Albeit- even though
Scorned- harsh criticism that shows a lack of respect or approval for someone or something; despised
Inn- a house usually in the country where people can eat and rent a room to sleep in
Dub- to confer a knighthood on
SUMMARY
Alonso Quijano is a Hidalgo, a low ranking Spanish person of nobility. He is about 50 years old and he lives in a settlement near the La Mancha region in Spain towards the beginning of the 17th century.
He loves reading stories about knights and fantastic stories about chivalry, princesses, magicians, enchanted castles… In fact, he is so involved with these fantasies that he slowly starts to lose touch with reality and begins to believe that he is one of these fiction heroes.
SUMMARY
Alonso finds some old armor and prepares an old horse from the stable which he names
Rocinante. The knight decides he needs to have a maiden, so, in his imagination he
converts a young villager named Aldonza Lorenzo, who he was once in love with, into the lovely LadyDulcinea del Toboso. As for himself, he bestows the name Don Quixote
because it rhymes with the name of the famous knight “Lanzarote”, also known as
Lancelot.
SUMMARY
So, the new knight sets off on an adventure with a ridiculous new costume and the hope of committing heroic deeds. However, it will
not take long for misunderstandings to occur between the real world and the fantasy world
of Don Quixote. In one scene, Don Quixotearrives to an inn, which he believes
to be a castle, and demands that the innkeeper dub him the noble title of “knight”.
SUMMARY
Later, he comes upon a young shepard whose master has tied to a tree and frees.
Next, Don Quixote is insulted by some merchants who he promptly attacks. The
merchants give Don Quixote a brutal beating and leave him on the side of the road where
he is found by a peasant and delivered home.
SUMMARY
Don Quixote convinces his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to be his squire
by promising him riches, fame and the governorship of an island. Sancho, unlike Don Quixote, is a practical albeit ignorant
man. Little by little he is seduced by the wild dreams of his new master. Together, they
sneak away in the early dawn and their famous adventures begin.
SUMMARY
The duo quickly come upon large windmills which Don Quixote believes to be ferocious giants and thus attacks. The pair continues on to live many other exciting adventures when
Don Quixote attacks a flock of sheep believing it to be an army, when his horse Rocinantepursues some mares, when he has a
sword duel with a Biscayan, frees some inmates that then attack him, finds a barber basin which he believes to be a
magical helmet and many other comical situations that occur in an inn. Later, the outrageous knight decides to move to a
mountain top in order to show his penance and earn the love of his imaginary maiden. His two best friends, a priest and a
barber, are forced to trick him into a cage in order to bring him back to his settlement.
SUMMARY
Throughout their adventures, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote will encounter a wide range of diverse characters including
innkeepers, pirate prisoners, prostitutes, goatherds, soldiers, priests, escaped
convicts and scorned lovers.
SUMMARY
In the second part of the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha novel, published 10 years later, Don Quixote departs on another
adventure with Sancho. This part of the novel is more critically acclaimed by critics because the protagonist, treated with more respect by the author, is successful in some
of his endeavors and becomes a more reflexive and self conscious character.
SUMMARY
Sancho, on the other hand, becomes more of a dreamer. The second part of Don Quixote
of La Mancha is written under the assumption that all of the characters have already read the first part of the novel and
are thus familiar with both Don Quixote and Sancho. As a result, the
people they meet will try to take advantage of the pair.
SUMMARY
A Duke and Duchess encounter Don Quixote and Sancho and decide to invite them to their palace for
amusement and practical jokes. For example, they tell Don Quixote that Dulcineais under Merlin's
spell to put him through a series of tests. They also deceive Sancho into lashing himself, believing that it will release the maiden from the spell. The Duke
later gives Sancho a false governorship and Sancho proves to be a wise and practical ruler, however this
is also a deceptive prank that leads to humiliation.
SUMMARY
Don Quixote is forced to lay down his arms and abandon his acts of chivalry for a period of one year when he is conquered in a battle
with the Knight of the White Moon. The conditions were agreed upon before the
battle with the knight, who was really to one of Don Quixote's friends dressed in a
costume. Defeated, they start their journey home
SUMMARY
Don Quixote retires in the countryside and eventually falls sick. He recovers his full
sanity and, despite Sancho's encouragement to restore his faith in fantasy, takes back the
name of Alonso Quixano and the former adventurer called Don Quixote is no more. In
his place, Alonso Quixano apologizes for all the craziness and any harm that he may
have caused before passing away.
ANALYSISDe Cervantes and Don Quixote La Mancha
De Cervantes
In late 1580s, de Cervantes began working for Spanish Armada as a commissary. It was
a thankless task, collecting grain supplies from rural communities. Many did not want
to provide the goods, and de Cervantes ended up in prison on two occasions
because of charges of mismanagement. During this trying time, he began writing
some of literature's greatest masterpieces.
De Cervantes
De Cervantes published the first part of Don Quixote in 1605.
The became the world's first best-seller, eventually being translated into more than
60 different languages. De Cervantes published the second part of the story in
1615.
Conclusion
Since De Cervantes was imprisoned this time, He might have been wishing for a
better life, and therefore, Alonso, who was full of imaginations, sprang up, and likewise
De Cervantes, he was lost to his fantasies.
Conclusion
De Cervantes might been telling his own life with this story, given that De Cervantes was not very successful in the field of literature,
in fact, only two of his works survived.
De Cervantes, Don Quixote La Mancha
and the Renaissance Period
ANALYZATION
The Renaissance's intellectual basis was humanism, derived from the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that ofProtagoras, who said, that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature.
ANALYZATION
The Renaissance's intellectual basis was humanism, derived from the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of
Protagoras, who said, that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking
became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature.
ANALYZATION
The philosophy can be observed in the story of both De Cervantes and Alonso, De
Cervantes had shown an extreme extension of his imagination in the story by creating a
character who have extreme extension of imagination. And all the things have been
aligned with the philosophy.
FIGURE OF SPEECH
Hyperbole
The use of hyperbole was observed a lot in the story, first is that, how can a man
survived a journey like this with insanity. Second is that, even though Sancho was
quiet ignorant, the story did not state that he was insane, therefore, he should be
aware that all happenings was a product of Alonso’s mind.
METAPHOR
The story was merely composed of imaginations of the protagonist, Don
Quixote, which could have been used by De Cervantes to symbolize his current situation, his failures in the past or his wild dreams of
success for the future.
METAPHOR
For example, the wind mill that Don Quixote had mistaken for a giant, could stand for the cause of
his imprisonment the time he was writing the story, he was hired as the one who manages the food of Spanish armada, it seems like it’s a giant opportunity for him to be successful but instead
found himself(though Don Quixote didn’t get conscious at those moment) hitting the wrong
thing after all, that his effort led him to failure.
METAPHOR
The giant windmill could also stand for the first novel he wrote, La Galatea, in 1585, it
seems (at least for him) to be a good weapon to hit the giant that was he thinks
hindering him from success, but then, he was mistaken, he was hitting no giant at all
but a big windmill that is useless for his career.